The first picture I chose was of Babe Ruth in his final game saying goodbye. There were 500,00 fans that came to watch him and say goodbye to him. This picture makes me feel inspired because he inspired so many people that 500,000 people felt the need to go see him. It shows how influential people can be. I think i could take this picture, because even though it would be sad to see the end of his career, it would be a happy moment because of all the success he had.

The second picture I chose was “Ebola ravages in West Africa”. In the picture we can see 2 heavily suited up people carrying a child who is infected. this picture makes me sad because it shows how this disease affected everyone, young, old, and if affected people very greatly. it is also sad how people so young lives could potentially be taken from them. I would be able to take this picture because it is important for others to know how this affected people in West Africa.

My favorite exhibit was the 9/11 exhibit. This was my favorite because as something that is fairly recent that I personally never experienced, it was interesting to learn about. The image below is all of the magazines and newspapers featuring 9/11. I really recommend visiting this exhibit and the Newseum because you can learn so much about major events that have happened all around the world in an interactive way.

Photographs:

World Trade Center Attack taken by  Steve Ludum in 2001:

 What drew me to the photo was that it was taken right after disaster struck in New York. This makes me think about all the people in the building that just experienced what just happened. I fell glad that I didn’t have to experience it first hand like so many others did.

Crisis in Haiti taken by Carol Guzy in 1995:

 What drew me to the photo was the expression on this mans face. He looked frozen while all the chaos is going on around him. I feel like it would be a very difficult job to try and contain  what is happening.

Extra: I don’t think that i would be able to take some of these pictures that these photographers take. It would make me feel to bad that I am just standing by watching all this happen and only being able to take a picture of it. Even though it was my job, i wouldn’t be able to bring myself to take these pictures. The only reward as a photographer that I can think of is getting paid for your work but that still would not be enough for the emotional scarring that comes with it.

2nd Exhibit: The other exhibit I decided to visit was the 9/11 exhibit. The best part of the exhibit was the wall of all the newspapers that were let out the day after the disaster happened. They also had a mangled piece of the twin towers that was salvaged from the wreckage. It almost had its own level because there was so much to put in the exhibit. I liked it because it gave me the information in a new way that I hadn’t heard it before.

I used the Fire Escape photo by Stanley J. Foreman in 1976. As they were coming down from the fire escape, the ladder fell and the 19 year old kid died while the two year old kid lived. This is photo was very sad and felt to the heart. People around thought that they would be okay but they weren’t. I was drawn to the photo because the setting and scene of the photo was very capturing.

I also used the photo Camera Captures Horror by Charles Porter IV by 1995. The fireman holding the baby from the deadly terrorist attack. This photo is very sad and touching. The photo had very good lighting and it was a good photo.

If I was taking the photo, I don’t think I would be able to separate being a person and photographer during these times because it was very tragic and emotional. Most photographers had to separate their personal life and job during these attacks. For the ones who did a good job, their photos turned out well and really captured the moment and what was happening at that time.

My favorite photo was the FBI exhibit. I liked the artifacts and readings about the bombings and attacks. They were very interesting and caught my attention. I thought it stood out to me compared to all of the other exhibits. The FBI exhibit had many  different stories and attacks that were told in detail. For example, there was a story about how ISIS captured one of ours and held him hostage while torturing and eventually killed him. Therefore, the FBI exhibit was one of the best exhibits I saw at the Newseum. bye now.

Link to the Pulitzer Prize can be found here: http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/217

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 This photo is very sad. It is of a kid being pulled away from his family because he contracted the deadly disease of Ebola.

 This picture is of a kid starving and a vulture ready to eat it.

Being a photographer would be very hard because there would be photos that I don’t want to take, but they can inspire people to make a change in the world. I would take amazing photos and I would get noticed for them, but some would be very hard to take.

The Pulitzer Prize photo that was taken in 1972 by Huynh Cong Ut called “The Terror of War” was a photo taken when planes dropped napalm in South Vietnamese, and shows a naked girl on fire screaming,”Too hot, too hot, please help!” while running in the street. This photo made me feel sad and sorry for the children in the photo. Another Pulitzer Prize photo that was taken in 1948 by Nathaniel Fein called,”Babe Ruth’s Final Farewell.” was a photo taken that shows fans cheering for Babe Ruth as he struggles to stand up while leaning on his bat because he is violently ill. This photo made me upset because babe Ruth was sick and ended up dying 2 months later.

If I was the one who was taking these photos, I would be able to separate myself as a photographer from being a human, this is because I would want to witness the struggle of other people and be in their shoes. The struggles of being a photographer is see all the sad thing and having to take pictures of it so others around the world can see what is going on. I do think there are rewards to this, such as being able to see what other people’s lives are like outside your own.

By favorite 2nd exhibit is the Don Bolles Story. what made me like it and find it interesting was that the man who died was a photographer who had made many enemies along the way. This exhibit fit into the Newseum very well because this reporter sacrificed his life for the new. This exhibit was very interesting because it shows the car with the bomb under the seat that he died in.